abstract sheath blight is an important rice disease in the mazandaran province of iran. biological control of this disease as alternative of chemical control with propiconazol (tilt) fungicide, examined with 3 biological products, trichodermin ab, trichodermin b and subtilin produced in iran. at first in the laboratory, fungi and bacterium isolated and purified from these products, and their ab...

root rot disease of broad-bean caused by fusarium solani is a serious disease of this crop. due to high cost and difficulty of the disease control, interaction between root nodulating bacteria and fusarium. solani were evaluated to use for disease management. broad-bean root nodulating bacteria were isolated and their interaction with f. solani was investigated in culture medium in a completely...

ôbjective: previous studies reported that individuals with parkinson’s disease are less likely to have smoking history and it seems that nicotine has a neuroprotective effect. the authors have conducted a case-control retrospective study to determine if there is an association between cigarette smoking and parkinson’s disease. methods: ïn a matched case-control study, 92 individuals with parkin...

After a 1-year hiatus, it’s time once again for the (almost) annual update and review on controlling the fungal diseases that grape growers must regularly contend with in our eastern climate. As always, I’d like to acknowledge the outstanding team of grape pathologists here in Geneva, which includes bacteriologists (Tom Burr’s program) and virologists (Marc Fuchs’s program) in addition to those...

Animal health concerns are not new to agriculture and breakthroughs occur with regularity, representing advances in technology. Likewise, the need for evaluation of new animal health technologies is not new. Standard tools such as budgeting, cash flow analysis, systems simulation analysis, and welfare analysis are required to measure benefits from new developments in animal health and disease c...